Example sentences of "[was/were] allow [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the 13 legalized opposition groups which had participated at the conference were allowed to put up candidates . |
| 2 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 3 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 4 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 5 | It seems incredible that they were allowed to go up and jump out without any rudimentary training in landing techniques . |
| 6 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 7 | These days women were allowed to take up the running , but she had n't and now it was too late . |
| 8 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 9 | The women were better provided for and were allowed to sit down . |
| 10 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 11 | If they wished , LEAs were allowed to set up nursery schools or classes for children below school age , and to provide physical and social educational facilities , such as school camps . |
| 12 | In a further attempt to restrict the role of local authorities in housing , council house tenants were given the right to switch to an alternative landlord — either in the form of a housing association or an approved private sector landlord — in other words , they were allowed to opt out of local authority control . |
| 13 | Over the summer , Anglo-Soviet negotiations were allowed to drag on until , in August , Stalin despaired of a Western alliance and signed the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 14 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 15 | The only times you were allowed to double up — that 's two beats together — down Scotland Road , say , where two would be allowed together , until they 'd cleared the street after the pubs had been let out . |
| 16 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |
| 17 | Most were allowed to stay out till 11.30 during the week and as late as they liked at weekends . |
| 18 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 19 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 20 | We were allowed to come out a at er twelve o'clock you see ? |
| 21 | At last a city official , wearing the blue and mustard livery of the Corporation , decided the burnt-out tenement had been sufficiently destroyed and we were allowed to pass on . |
| 22 | All the remarks and innuendoes were allowed to pass by . |
| 23 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 24 | Landings were made at Wurzburg and Frankfurt , but only the pilot and navigator were allowed to get out . |
| 25 | When the guards had surrounded the train we were allowed to get in . |
| 26 | If Travellers Fare did not wish to provide a service on a train , there should be none ; if they closed a refreshment room , it had to lie idle for a year before a private operator was allowed to take over . |
| 27 | At last John 's son Robert was given a chance ; he was allowed to take over this clerical work , and was methodical enough to cope with it . |
| 28 | She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men . |
| 29 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 30 | During the study the subject was allowed to sit up , or walk around briefly if they wished every 60 minutes . |